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FOURTH YEAR. .
MEDFORD, ORKOONf-'MONDAySEL'TEAinKK 13, YM).
No. 151.
Daily
RANDALL HERE
TO ESTABLISH
GRADING
CAMPS
Porter Bros. Sublet Contract for Ex
tension of Pacific & Eastern to
Hero of Deschutes Can
yon War.
CAR OF EQUIPMENT
ARRIVES IN MEDFORD
Between Four Hundred and Five Hun
dred Men Will Be Given Work
in the Near Future.
I'orler Brothers, the riiilrond enn
t mi-torn, who secured from John It.
, All-n tlio contract tor the extension
of the Pacific) & EiiHliirn to the tini
lior Ml, have sublet thc work to H.
N. Kundull. who 18 iilnii ii siib-coii-trm-ior
on thn Oregon Trunk, mid wax
th- ri-iil hero in tho rnilruuri 'war
iilnii the Deschutes riuiyoil, where
lie conducted hostilities lorportor
Brothers and managed their cam-ini-n.
N
Mi-. Raudiill bus returned from
I'orltnnd to establish oaiups and
Hlnrl work on (he railroad extension
at once. A Vancouver firm of con
tractors in now examining tin work
wilh u viow to sub-conlrnetin from
M-. Randall thu team work. If they
do not tako'the oentrnct, locnl teams
and KunduU'H own (dock will be used.
A carload of equipment, consisting
of steel drillK, tents, etc., arrived in
Medford Monday and daily oquip
mcnt will continue to arrive.
"Tho first camp will lie established
this weok on the ranch just beyond
whefe tho graded riHt of way ends,"
nniil Mr. Randall. "There is a consid
erable cut to be made there. Wc'will
work from J50 to 200 men at the
l.nt. mid increase the number as the
work progresses until 500 are em
lilovnd. Work will be rushed."
Mr. Rundall is a brolher-in-law of
Tohiisoii Porter and a brother of A
C. Randall of the Tulent Orchard
ffnti pnuy.
REV. MATLOCK ACCEPTS
CHRISTIAN PASTORATE
The Christian church of this cily
have extended n call to tho Rev. W.
T. Matlock, formerly of Newbcrg,
Or., to bo thoir pastor for tho coming
your. , Tho Rov. Mr." Matlock, who
hits accepted the call, is a prominent
fijfiiro in tho church circles of the
northwest and will prove n valuable
necjiiisition to the religious element of
this city, as ho is an easy and flu
ent speaker and n man who enn al
ways bo found in the forefront of
tiny movomont that tends to belter thn
conditions of communities in which
hn lives.
TURNER OF DUNSMUIR
BUYS TEN-ACRE GROVE
J. T, Turner of Dunsmuir, Cul.,
has purchased the south ten acres
of the T. R. Kline tract two, miles
south of Medford nt $400 nn acre,
Tho land is Bear crock bottom land
and in vouiiir Newtown and Hurtled.
Mr. Tumor, who ia n brother of
Charles Young, will build and moke
his homo on tho place. Mr. Kline
bought tho land two years ago. It.
adjoins the Hear Creek orelmrd and
U port of the old Tou Voile tract.
FIRST.
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Tin- world's -hmiiiiu miirknin on
BREAK CUTS OFF
WATER SUPPLY
Section of Ditch Washes Out, Neces-
itating Use of Bear Creek Water
Temporarily.
Sunday niu'il ! i-rclltit! i.f the Fish
Luke ditch, which is temporarily sup-
plyinj.r,Uutlc creek water to Medford,
was washed out, neoessitnlhuj a re
sort to the old punip'uiff system with
Bear -creek nioisluiv.
A lai'uc lorce in working on the
ditch and it is expected llic diiiuiiu
will bo 'repaired sufficiently to turn
the water on iij.'iii by n'xuhl.
There is but little water in Boar
creek, and unless the break is fixed
up speedily thu city will face a' wa
ter famine. If the city's now reser
voir had been completed, there would
lave been sufficient supply stored
to lido the city over.
Old Soldiers Encamped at Ulrich's
Grove Program Outlined for
a Busy Week.
The 18th annual reunion of G. A
R. veterans and. Women's Relief
Coi-jis began Monday at Ulrich grove.
The following is the program:
M lav, September 13 Arrival ol
Q. A. R. posts and other delegation?
mil ussigning quarters.
Tuesday, 11th Forenoon, Culling
to order and organizing. Afternoon:
Making camp, etc. Evening at ":.'10,
address of welcome, by Hon. B. F.
Mulkey: response by District Com
mander A. L. Spencer,- followed by
musical proi'i'nm.
Wednesday, loth Assembling of
North Dakota association of South
ern Oregon; banquet at jioon: flag
shower at 4 p. in.; musical entertain
mont in evening conducted by Mrs.
Canthoran. -
Thursday, Kith Election of offi
cers at 2 p. in.; tho evening program
will he n banquet served by the la
dies of .Jacksonville and an open-air
concert bv the city band, under the
leadership of Professor Norling. A
plonsnnt evening's enlovtaiumnnt for
everybody. '
Friday. 17th At 10 n. m instal
lation of officers of the association.
The afternoon and evening entertain
incut will bo provided and conducted
bv the W. R. C. and O. A. R. of Mod-
ford.
ANNUAL SHOOT OF PACIFIC
T
uml III
cir wives here shown grottped
ll. l,.m &mtij&fMma&. inn..
PACIFIC AND EASTERN MAY BE
MAIN LINM HILL TO COAST
John F. Stevens, Hill's Right Bower, Denies Ownership of Line, but Ad
mits That Hill May Acquire It Later As the Situation
Looks to the Portland Orcgonian.
The Portland Oregoniaii of Sun- Good Grades Available,
day, September 12, contains (lie en- j Tho rood is the old Medford & Cra
Kiiing storv on the probable owner-! ,,:r Lnkc lillc- or'K'i"nIly projected
t, . e ,i i v . in fl'om Bedford into the Crater Lake
ship ot the Pacific & Eastern by the , m . , , ,
. J country. The survey was located to
Hill interests, which coufmns nrti-1 IJulte Fas nd from tl)(,rp re-con.
eles previously published in the Tri-' noitering parties pressed into central
bune surmising the fuel that Hill was . Oregon.
back of John 11. Allen. Tim soV. '
nificant statement of the article is
tun nrr.ntssion ny jolin r. Mevcns:
1
"The Pacific & Eusteni is not u part j
of the Oregon Trunk line. I am not .
snyi.ig, however, that it will not ' be j
,
some day.
I i iicuic cousi. lemiiiiniuis at v rcs
Ibo Oit'goiiinn s nrlicle reads as , opn Citv.
follows: j . Taps Virgin Field.
Recent developments in connection . The great feature of a railway
with the extension of the Pacific & built over such a route from central
Eastern railroad from Medford north ! Oregon is that it would serve a virgin
east arc looked upon by men famil- i
inr with the railroad strategic situu-! resources resources that would pro
tion in southwestern Oregon as point- ! 'bice almost immediate tonnage for
ing an unerring finger at the route 1 a line that would put the products in
that J. J. Hill will follow in extending die markets.
the Oregon Trunk lino into California. ! O" July 18 of this year iuformn
Yesterday . Porter Brothers, tho tion came to the Oregonian from a
Oregon Trunk line contractors, en- "ian familiar with the inner dealings
tered into a contract for building un of the Pacific & Eastern that Hill
extension of tho Pacific & Eastern ; was then negotiating for the pur-
from Eagle Point, the present ter -
minus, to Butte Falls, a distance of
21 miles.
RANK BALL GAME
Worst Game in Memory of Oldest
- Inhabitant Won by Home Team
by Score of 15 to Nothln g.
There may have been worse ball
games played on tho Medford grounds
than that of Sunday, but if there
were nobody could remember them.
It was rotten, both sides and the
umpire beini' almost equal offenders,
Medford hud the best of it by n
score of 15 to 0, but that doesn't in
dieato good playing only that the
other fellows played worse.
Kiucnid was relieved in the fifth
after six runs had been made in the
fourth 'without the, semblunce of a
hit. , Sunderson then 'went on tho
mound and simply threw them over.
INDIANS HELD AT MEDFORD LAST
wii
iili liinil shooters on the Mudford
r m " uuthontative source it was
learned yesterday that two available
routes, providing excellent grade,
',,. .i:u,.,..-,i .-- i. :..
uiov.r.vtVU IH'IUM ill. utuuiiiaiii
range. Some years ago railroad sur-
veyors on a reeonnoissnnce worked
""uthwcslward from Medford and
loiuia u satisiactorv route to tnc
... . . .- .
field of almost unbclieveablc natural
' chase of the road and that he was
behind tho Porter Brothers, and the
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having no claim to bo a pitcher. The
oiie redeeming feature of the game
was Tenrt's work at short for Cen
tral Point. The little fellow fielded
his position' like a leaguer and made
several stops and catches that, got
mm a hand trom the grandstand.
Central Point also made two very
pretty double plays.
In running bases both sides seemed
to bo wearing leaded shoes, as one
rooter remarked they "ran like hy
drants, all in one place."
Burgess and Hill, Mod'ord's bat
tery, are young players, who are full
of promise. Burgess has good con
trol, especially for a young southpaw,
and Hill rcccive's well and plays in
good style.
What do vou think of Pug Isaacs
at short? He only made two errors
out of two chances, but he got his
man the second time.
This game about winds up the sea
son and it ought to.
Will trade small ranch for city
property; good value. Benson Invest
incut Co. 151 '
WEEK.
Rod mid Gim Club's grounds.
HIGH PRICES FOR.
HOWELL PEARS
Two Cars From Hillcrest Orchard
Sell at $3.40 a Box in Chicago,
Top Sales for the Day.
Not only Rogue River Bartletts are
commanding fancy figures in the east
ern markets, but also Howells. The
Hillcrest orchard reports the gale of
two cars in Chicago Saturday for
$3.4J) a box for firsts and $3.15 for
seconds. The cars were shipped from
Medford August, .24.- The same day
Bartletts sold, around the $2.50 mark
in Chicago. , The price received is
equivalent to $2.50 a box net to the
grower.
Saturday at Cleveland the Burrell
orchard sold a ear of Bartletts for
$2.75. The- car left Medford Au
gust 20.
While Medford Bartletts still com
mand the highest price paid, prices
are lower than a week before, owing
to the arrival of local pears, which
are selling at from $5 to $6 a 160
pound barrel as against $2.75 and
$3 for a Medford box. .
SCHOOL FOR PACKERS
OPENSFULL CLASS
Applications for Scholarships Must
Be Made at Once to Secure
Benefit of Instruction.
, ,. .. .
Inder the direction of Professors
Cole and Brown, experts furnished
by the Oregon agricultural college,
the school for packers under state
supervisiou opened in the Cox ware-
house on South D street Mondnv with
a closs of 20, who, after a three days'
course, will make way for another
class. Applications for scholarships
should bo made at once to C. E..Whis-
ler. The school will last two weeks.
No fee will bo charged students,
tho expense of tho institution be
ing home by locnl fruit growers.
This is tho first time in tho history
of the -valley that such a course has
been offered to locnl packers. Never
before were outside instructors
brought into tho Rogue River valley
to teach local wackers how to prop
errly pack fruit and thereby assure
highest returns for local fruit.
Give us your insurance. Wo will
place it in good companies and look
carefully after it. Piro, pinto glass,
automobile. Benson Investment Co.
151 .
BABES VICTIMS
BLACK HAND
A
OFJTICA
Threer Little Children Kidnaped While
Playing in Front of Homes in
Italian Colony One Dead,
i Others Wounded.
STATEWIDE SEARCH FOR
CRIMINALS UNDER WAY
Parents Had Refused Demands for
Blackmail and Turned Letters
Over to Police..
UTICA, N. Y., Sept. 13. State
wide search began, today for kid
napers, scupposed to be members of
the Black nand society, who late
yesterday kidnaped three small chil
dren playing in .the street in front of
their home in the Italian colony. Fol
lowing an all night search, the body
of one child, jvho had been murdered,
was found this morning. Another was
seriously shot and the third is still
missing.
Under a culvert in an isolated sec
tion of the city eai-ly today Teresa
Percopia, aged 8, was found dead.
Fannie Infus, aged 6, dying, and Fred
die Infusiono, aged 3, was found
with a bullet in his arm.
The parents of the children are
wealthy and have been - repeatedly ,
threatened bv black hand letters that
if they failed to leave the amount
stated death would follow. The de
mands were refused and the letters
given the police.
GIRL LOSES LIFE TO
SAVE ELEVEN CHILDREN
PITTSBURG, Sept. 13. Cecila
Roach, aged 17, a high school girl, is
the heronine of Pittsburg today, aft
er losing her lifo to save 11 children,
whose ages range from 4 to 13, from
drowning.
Cecila's body, also that of Bessie
Timmons, aged 11, lies somewhere in
the depths of the Monongahela river.
The tragedy occurred at Rundown
yesterday. Someone unwittiriglysjais
ed the wicket of tho dam, creating a
current, -drawing the skiff in which
J the girls were boating. Cecila. hud-
, d)ed her -m the steni
the prow from the water and turned
the boat partially shoreward, until
! the rescue boats arrived. The chil-
I dren, panic-stricken, jumped before
all were rescued, and tho skiff, with
Cecila and Bessie who fainted, went
over- the falls to death.
L0VETT DIRECTOR IN
PLACE OF HARRIMAN
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. Judge
Robert S. Lovett was today elected
chairman of the executive committee
of the Union Pacific railroad to fill
tho vacancy caused by the death of
Harrimnn. William Rockefeller and
Jacob Schiff was elected directors
to fill vacancies left by tho deaths of
I II. II. Rogers and Harriman. Rocke
feller and Sehitt aro believed to nave
been financially interested in a num
ber of Harriman deals.
A few more lots left in Woodlnwn
Heights. Will soon bo closed ont
Benson Investment Co. 151